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On m’avait raconté en débarquant sur cette petite île de Mayotte, qu’il existait, au bout du Sud, une plage dans un hôtel. Cette curiosité serait ma première destination. Cela semblait tenir de la légende ou de ces rumeurs qui enflent quand les espaces sont si exigus. Après tout, cette île n’est-elle pas pétrie d’extraordinaires : l’île au lagon ; l’île aux parfums ; l’île en forme d’hippocampe et même les îles sous la lune avec ses trois sœurs de l’Archipel des Comores.
On m’avait indiqué le chemin : suivre la route…
Et puis, la plage, celle qui m’a t-on dit a épousé un hôtel. Le sable s’est frayé un chemin blanc entre l’océan et les baobabs. Je me prends à rêver que ces éléphants gris, où ont élu domicile makis et roussettes, dorment…
Welcome to Africa, AKA the motherland! Check out African Internet Radio while you're scoping the panoramas.The earliest fossil of the homo sapiens family (human beings) was found in Ethiopia, dating back more than 200,000 years. Compared to this length of time, even the "ancient Sumerians" from 6000 B.C. are drooling toddlers.Let's mention a few African heroes you may have heard of, for inspiration in the face of the continued economic inequality and violence which plague Africa today: Nelson Mandela, first democratically elected President of South Africa, who fought against apartheid and served 27 years in prison while advocating freedom and peace. Haile Salassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, who resisted Mussolini and the fascist Italian invasion of WWII, and who is worshipped as an incarnation of God by the Rastafari movement. Kwame Nkrumah, first Prime Minister of Ghana, advocate of uniting Africa in Pan-Africanism. Fela Kuti, inventor of Afrobeat music, who declared his home to be an independent state, ran for president of Nigeria, and to whose funeral ONE MILLION PEOPLE came to pay their respects.In June 2001 the African Union was formed, consisting of 53 African States organized, like in the EU, around common economic and political development.Text by Steve Smith.
